Improvement in types



J. R. BETTIS.

Type.

Ne. 200,020. Patented Feb. 5,1878.

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UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE..

JAMES n. BETTIS, or ST. LOUIS, Mo.AssIeNoR To CARL SOHBAUBSTADTER AND JAMES A. ST. JOHN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TYPES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,020, dated February 5, 1878; application iiled August 28, 1877.`

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES R. Burris, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Types, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 shows an impression as produced by a form containing my improved type; Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section taken through such a form, say at the line x x of Fig. l, and Figs. 3 and 4, respectively, a side and a top view of my improved type.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

It is frequently desirable in printing to print one line through the center of anotherline.

For suclr work it has been customary to use a special engraving or cut, or to use ordinary type and make a second impression.

Both of these methods are objectionablethe rst involving, for each piece of work, the expense-of a special engraving that is worthless for other work, and the second requirin g additional composition and press-work, and generally. differentlycolored inks.

To obviate these diiiiculties, and to provide means whereby the desired result can be readily and economically attained, is my present aim.

Referring to the annexed drawing, A, Figs. 2, 3, and 4, represents my improved type. It may be described as an ordinary type divided vertically into two parts, a a', the line of division being between and parallel with the top and bottom of the face of the type, and one, a, of the parts having the upper portion of a letter or character raised thereon, and the other part, a', having the lower portion of the letter raised thereon, and preferably arranged so that on each part the edge of the letter that (when the form is made up) is toward the other part of the type comes even with the side of the body of the type, as shown at a, Fig. 3. Thus made, the parts a a', although used in combination, are two distinct types.

In making up the form these two sets a a and a a are arranged, respectively, above and below the intermediate type B, Fig. 2, the latter being used to print the central linethat is, the types a a, bearing the upper por tion of the letters, are arranged above the type B, and the types a a, bearing the lower portion of the letters, are arranged below the type B. The last-named type may be of any style, either ordinary type or a cut or engraving, suitable for printing that part of the been superimposed on a previous impression, A

with this advantage, that every part of the impression is distinctly printed-a result which cannot be satisfactorily obtained when ordinary type are used and a second impression made upon a previous one.

Although divided at right angles to the face of the type, the type a et may, if desired, be divided at any angle with the face, and the plane of the vertical division may be at any suitable angle with the side of the type, or i in a plane that is not parallel with the top of the type, and the type a a' may be of any desirable size, face, case, or style.

In Fig. 2, D'representsthe rule, and E the leads, of the intermediate type B, and F represents the chase. The rule, and even the leads, are not in all cases essential, as the intermediate type may come directly in contact withthe type at a', if desired.

A modification of the invention is the division of the type A into three or more parts, instead of into two, c a', only. In such case `the letter or character is divided correspondingly.

I am aware that bank-note plates havebeen made in parts, and I therefore do not claim, broadly, all kinds of sectional plates or blocks. The present is an improvement in typography in distinction from plate-printing or xylog- 3. A form composed of the type a a', type raphy, relating only to printers movable types B, rules D7 and leads E E, substantially as cast in molds; and described.

I claim- Witness my hand.

l. As a new manufacture7 a printers movable type made in sections, for the purpose described.

2. Aform composed of the sectional type Witnesses: a a and other intermediate type, B, arranged CEAS. D. MOODY7 substantially as described, and for the pur- GEO. H. KOHN. pose set forth.

JAS. B. BETTIS. 

